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Engaging students and staff with enterprise education: good practice and support. Welcome and Introductions. “Engaging employability through enterprise education”. Perspectives on “if employability was working perfectly, what would it look like? ”. What is Employability?.
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Engaging students and staff with enterprise education: good practice and support
“Engaging employability through enterprise education” Perspectives on “if employability was working perfectly, what would it look like?”
What is Employability? “To be employed is to be at risk, to be employable is to be secure” Hawkins (2002) • Employability: a set of achievements - skills, knowledge and personal attributes - that make an individual more likely to secure and to be successful in their chosen occupation(s) to the benefits of themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy” Yorke (2006) • Definitions of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
All educators play a role • Level of engagement varies • Enterprise Education provides a vehicle • Enterprising Educators exhibit heightened levels of Skills, Attributes and Behaviours of the market place (?)
There is great value in our network • There are established platforms for stakeholders to share pains and gains • We agree there is no midas touch • Our students demand more from us, many consider it the measure of success of their studies if they get a graduate level job...
NACUE In 2014/15 our network has grown: 96 university societies 110 further education societies NACUE Create helps creative subject students engage with enterprise Innovation Fund has distributed £752,000 to our societies
NCEE So what would “it” look like? • Entrepreneurial Outcomes • Known as current and/or future career option • Level playing field • Explicit and Embedded • Integrated enterprise experiences • Virtuous Circle Word of caution:“not all things to all people”
Entrepreneurial University • Graduates
Why we are addressing this together Seeking integrated approach for our students Drawing on wisdom of key stakeholders
Challenge 1 To create tables of • Students • Educators • Managers “Speed date” to find people with same interests
Challenge 2 If employability was working perfectly, what would it look like to create entrepreneurial outcomes
Your Next Steps Your Staff Development • IEEP & Associate IEEP (Sept 2014) • International Entrepreneurship Educators Programme • EEUK Best Practice days • HEA report (case studies)
Thank you Tom Williamson tom.williamson@coventry.ac.uk David Bozward david@nacue.com Alison Price alison.price@ncee.org.uk